Word: everydayness
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Hero cartoons provide excitement and adventure and offer an escape from everyday life. But they also teach the beauty of living in the real world—we do not always have to be successful and defeat our enemies. And while we may hope to spend our lives doing good for the world, we shouldn’t demand it from ourselves all the time. While Aladdin, Hercules and Kim must spend every half hour righting wrongs, overcoming burdens and saving the world, we can take thirty minutes off to watch them...
...oblivious cop and a laconic hit man (Richie Jen) posing as a lost motorist. It's pure To, who's proved in classic cops-and-triad films like The Mission and PTU that he possesses a finely tuned mastery of suspense, of those last moments before the ordinary everyday plunges into sudden violence...
...have not only enhanced her sailing but her well-being. In the beginning, she says, the driving force for knowledge and training was always to peak at Olympics time; now, as she contemplates life away from competition, the lessons she learns from yoga, for instance, are incorporated into her everyday existence. While age has brought her calm, all but removing the fear of failure that pervaded her 20s, it has made Kendall's body more vulnerable: now she needs to work harder at keeping muscles and joints in tune. "If I have something niggling me, I'm very sensitive...
...Library's new exhibition, "The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith," is aware of the beguiling quality of her subject and seeks to ground it. "I want people to leave with a knowledge that the Silk Road is not a faraway, exotic place," she says, "but full of everyday lives and everyday people which have relevance to us today...
...intestines stuffed with glass noodles; octopus tentacles; and the infamous bon dae gi-boiled silkworm larvae. To the uninitiated gourmand, a simmering bucket of larvae might look-and smell-distinctly less than alluring, but there's no better way to get a quick taste of everyday life on the streets of Seoul...